"It's true. The Force...The Jedi...All of it." - Han Solo

The legendary performance capture pioneer Andy Seekis is playing Supreme Leader Snoke in Star Wars The Force Awakens, but what do we know about him? Get the latest from EW below...

Andy Serkis

"It’s the first time I’ve been on set not yet knowing what the character’s gonna look like. I mean talk about secrecy!"

- Andy Serkis

Andy Serkis has been discussing the constant evolution of one of The Force Awakens' CGI characters, the ill win of the piece; Supreme Leader Snoke.

"When we first started working on it, he had some rough notions of how Snoke was gonna look, but it really hadn’t been fully-formed and it almost came out of discussion and performance."

- Andy Serkis

Early speculation seemed to suggest Snoke would have a serpentine appearance, like a huge cobra with a hooded head. Some of Andy's description would suggest something along those lines. When asked if make up was ever an option:

“No, no.The scale of him, for instance, is one reason. He is large. He appears tall. And also just the facial design – you couldn’t have gotten there with prosthetics. It’s too extreme. Without giving too much away at this point, he has a very distinctive, idiosyncratic bone structure and facial structure. You could never have done it [in real life.]"

- Andy Serkis

The first cast photo for The Force Awakens

It would appear that we will be waiting until December to see Snokes final look but what about his motivations as a villain?

"Supreme Leader Snoke is quite an enigmatic character, and strangely vulnerable at the same time as being quite powerful. Obviously he has a huge agenda. He has suffered a lot of damage. As I said, there is a strange vulnerability to him, which belies his true agenda, I suppose."

- Andy Serkis

I'm so impressed by the restraint being shown here. Great effort is being made to keep secrets until the release! Roll on December!